Tenses

Speech is a continuous stream of sound without a clear division into units, but it can be analyzed into meaningful elements which recur and combine according to rules. In writing, such an analysis is expressed through the division into words and sentences. Far more distinctions are needed, however, for a proper grammatical description.

Our primary task in this section is to introduce, define, and illustrate the grammatical terms and categories used to talk about these units throughout this e-book. At the same time, however, we will present new information about the general distributional patterns of the major grammatical categories.

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